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Driving Around Kyoto City in a BMW – Fun Facts About Kyoto’s Roads
BMWで行くツーリング記。今回は愛車BMW 320iで京都の街をドライブしてみました。
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How to Drive the Royu Driveway – Course Guide and Important Tips
関西のクルマ好き達の聖地「芦有ドライブウェイ」。この芦有ドライブウェイのコースガイドを作ってみました。走る上での注意点や魅力などについて書いています。
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Mastering the Porsche Boxster GTS (MT) — Until That Day Comes Vol.6
Riding the Boxster GTS After Several Months One recent Sunday, since my mother-in-law was able to watch the kids, we went to the Royu Driveway in the morning, and then decided to head back there in the Boxster for about an hour in the afternoon. I thought, “Wow, it’s been a long time since I last drove the Boxster,” so I checked my blog and realized it had actually been half a year. …Seriously?! (ﾟдﾟ)!!...
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What Makes Royu Driveway So Special? – Visiting the Sunday Morning Gathering at Royu
A Sunday Morning Trip to Royu One Sunday morning, since my mother-in-law was able to watch the kids, my husband and I took the GT3 and headed to the Royu Driveway. This time, after tweeting in advance that we’d be going to Royu, several people replied, “I’m going too!” so I was really looking forward to meeting everyone. We arrived at the East Rokko Observatory on Royu Driveway around 8:30 a.m. But the parking lot...
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Blog Readers’ Comments Share Vol.8 – Porsche 911 GT3, Manual Cars, VW Golf, Abarth,...
Thank you to everyone who regularly reads this blog. Here, we periodically share comments from our readers, and this is the eighth installment. As before, we’ve lightly edited the comments—extracting only the necessary parts and providing enough context—to present them here. About Porsche 991.2 GT3 The GT3 can reach about 88 km/h at 6000 rpm in 2nd gear, so during break-in it’s tough because there are limited places where you can really push it. I’m...
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Driving a Manual Car – Why Throttle Control Is Just as Important as the Clutch
Gently and Slowly on the Throttle Back when I couldn’t drive a manual car at all, I was so focused on clutch operation that I had no room to think about anything else. Then one day, I found a video online titled, “Driving a manual car is all about throttle control.” When driving a manual, it’s natural to focus on the clutch, but the video explained that “it’s important to ease off the throttle slowly...
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Attending the 1st Anniversary Event of Porsche Classic Partner
Porsche Classic Partner Recently, I attended the “Porsche Classic Partner 1st Anniversary Event” held at Porsche Center Sakai. A Porsche Classic Partner is a dealer certified by Porsche AG as having expert knowledge about classic Porsches and capable of providing proper service and advice. There are only four such dealers in Japan so far. The goal is to help classic Porsche owners enjoy their beloved cars for even longer. They supply about 52,000 types of...
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Started “Meidou Map” – Creating Touring Maps for Car Enthusiasts
Japan’s Famous Roads My husband regularly goes on long tours, and each time he comes back with a huge collection of photos of cars and scenery. Every time I see those photos, I’m amazed and think, “So Japan really does have such magnificent nature and beautiful roads…” Recently, when he returned from a tour in Tohoku, he excitedly said, One week isn’t nearly enough to cover it all, and I still want to drive more....
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Mastering the Porsche 911 GT3, Vol.1 – A Drive to Sanda Burgring
Heading to Sanda Burgring in the GT3 The other day, I took the GT3 out on a Sunday morning drive along the Royu Driveway. Since my mother-in-law kindly offered to watch the kids until evening, I took advantage of that and decided to head out for a drive to Sanda (Sanda Burgring) in the GT3 in the afternoon. (More about Sanda Burgring here↓) 911（964C2）に乗って、サンダブルクリンクを走ってきた。 We left home with my husband driving first. Along the way,...
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A Sunday Morning Drive on the Royu Driveway in the Porsche 911 GT3!
Sunday Morning on the Royu Driveway One weekend in June, since my mother-in-law was coming to stay, we arranged for her to watch the kids on Sunday morning, and my husband and I decided to head out to the Royu Driveway together for the first time in a while. The last time we went, even arriving at 8:15 AM, there were hardly any parking spots left, so this time we aimed to get there by...